Jesse & Joy- “Chocolate” from Carlos Lopez Estrada on Vimeo.

Carlos Lopez Estrada directed the latest music video for Latin American Grammy winners Jesse & Joy. The video combines many stop motion techniques to bring the very charming story to life.

Make sure to check out the behind-the-scenes video to see how they did it all.

The animation director, Cameron Clark, contacted us to let us know how well Dragon Stop Motion software worked for the project:

Dragon was absolutely essential to the success of the video. We were able to take my After Effects pre-visualizations and lay them down as a “line-up video” for real-time references to make sure all of our movements came out smooth and to the beat. This way, I could hand off a reference video to a team of animators to do the physical movements while I was free to work on the next shot’s pre-animation, knowing that they could use Dragon to basically trace my work. This way we got the smoothness of digital animation combined with the charm of physical stop-motion.

Sure beats having to plan it all by hand and sit behind the physical animators to make sure their tweening is consistant. With Dragon, we were able to do a 4 minute music video with almost 3,000 still photos in less than a month, counting pre-production. The workflow really was a dream.

Click here to watch the behind-the-scenes video.